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<div><b>Turing's 100th Birthday Party at King's College,
Cambridge</b></div>
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<div>15th & 16th June 2012</div>
<div>King's College, Cambridge</div>
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<div>Turing's 100th Birthday Party, celebrating his life and work,
will be held at King's College, Cambridge--Turing's beloved
intellectual home. All welcome!</div>
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<div>The speakers include a team of experts on Turing and leading
scientists and science broadcasters such as Daniel Dennett, Simon
Singh and Stephen Wolfram. Four members of Turing's immediate family
and others who knew him personally will share their recollections of
him.</div>
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<div>Pioneers of computing who worked alongside him, building and
programming the first computers, as well as investigating his
mathematical theory of how living matter grows, will explain his ideas
and achievements.</div>
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<div>Codebreaker Jerry Roberts, one of Turing's last surviving wartime
colleagues from Station X, will give the King's College Turing
Centenary Lecture.</div>
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<div>There will be lectures on Turing's contributions to: the Second
World War, the development of our technological society, Artificial
Intelligence, Artificial Life, the theory and practice of computing,
and the understanding of the human mind.</div>
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<div>Music: the premier performance of A Piano Suite for Turing.</div>
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<div>For more information about the event, please go to: <a
href="http://sites.google.com/site/turingace2012/"
>http://sites.google.com/site/turingace2012/</a></div>
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<div><i>Speakers</i></div>
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<li>Sir John Dermot Turing
<li>Turing's three nieces Inagh, Janet and Shuna
<li>Jon Agar
<li>Margaret Boden, OBE
<li>Martin Campbell-Kelly
<li>Brian Carpenter
<li>Jack Copeland
<li>Daniel Dennett
<li>Robert Doran
<li>William Newman
<li>Teresa Numerico
<li>Brian Oakley
<li>Brian Randell
<li>Bernard Richards
<li>Jerry Roberts
<li>Simon Singh
<li>Doron Swade
<li>Stephen Wolfram
<li>Michael Woodger</ul>
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<div><i>Registration</i></div>
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<div>Please register early, places are limited. To register,
visit: <a
href="http://sites.google.com/site/turingace2012/registration"
>http://sites.google.com/site/turingace2012/registration</a></div>
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<div><i>Transport and accommodation</i></div>
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<div>For information about how to arrive in King's College, and places
to stay, visit: <a
href="http://sites.google.com/site/turingace2012/hotels"
>http://sites.google.com/site/turingace2012/hotels</a></div>
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<div><i>Organizers</i></div>
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<div>Turing's 100th Birthday Party is being organized by Jack Copeland
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href="mailto:j.copeland@phil.canterbury.ac.nz"
>jack.copeland@canterbury.ac.nz</a>) and Mark Sprevak (<a
href="mailto:mark.sprevak@ed.ac.uk">mark.sprevak@ed.ac.uk</a>).</div>
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